Entering the Covenant
by Tectonic Ministries
When the apostle Paul arrived in Ephesus, he found disciples who had believed and been baptised and had never heard whether there was a Holy Spirit. He did not reassure them. He taught them, baptised them in water, laid his hands on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.
Paul’s question to those disciples, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”, is the question at the heart of this book.
Building on the theological foundation of Book One (God’s 55 Days), Daniel Murphy examines the four accounts of Holy Spirit baptism in Acts and shows that the pattern is entirely consistent: all who received the Spirit spoke in tongues. He draws on the teaching of Jesus in John 14–16, the theology of the untameable tongue from James 3, and the witness of two thousand years of church history, from the Moravian outpouring of 1727 to the Welsh Revival of 1904 to what is happening in Papua New Guinea and India today, to make the urgent pastoral case that this gift is not reserved for a selected few.
It is the birthright of every believer. And God is more eager to give it than you have ever been to ask.
Pastoral in tone, urgent in conviction, and grounded in Scripture throughout, Entering the Covenant addresses the objections that have kept sincere believers from seeking what God has freely provided, and offers clear, practical guidance on how to receive the Holy Spirit and walk in the fullness of the covenant life.
The same gift. As upon us at the beginning. For you.
More books by Tectonic Ministries
God's 55 Days
The New Blood Covenant Revealed
What if the most extraordinary pattern in all of Scripture has been hiding in plain sight, waiting to be seen?
Fifteen hundred years separate the Mosaic Covenant from the Messianic Covenant. Yet when you place them side by side, event by event, day by day, they match with a precision that no human planning could have achieved. Selection Day to Selection Day. Passover to Passover. The Red Sea to baptism. And on the fifty-fifth day: the fire of God at Sinai, and the fire of God at Pentecost.
In God's 55 Days, Daniel Murphy traces this breathtaking parallel from Exodus to Acts, answering the six great questions Israel had been asking for five hundred years: WHO is the Messiah? WHAT is the New Covenant? WHEN was it inaugurated? WHERE did it happen? HOW was it provided? And WHY this way?
The answers are found in the most important fifty-five days in human history, and reveal the fingerprint of God on Scripture with a precision that cannot be explained by coincidence.
This is not academic. This is not abstract. This is about whether you have entered the covenant God established, on His terms, in the way He requires, with every element present that both Sinai and Pentecost demanded.
The pattern is clear. The covenant is open. The question is personal.